The thing with renos is you don't know what sort of renos they're doing or what stage they're at. If they're plastering & painting OK, but if drilling, power-sawing, or jack-hammering then it's hell. Because it so noisy the Thai workers have to shout to each other so that'll make X2. Thais have a different noise threshold to us, so they think it's OK. For an example just go to a Thai cinema and see how loud the soundtrack is.